[Orthopedics]. Naumburg, Johann Samuel (1768-1799).

D. Johann Samuel Naumburg’s ausübenden Arztes zu Erfurt Abhandlung von der Beinkrümmung nebst einer Beschreibung der Ehrenmannischen Fußmaschine, und einigen angehängten bemerkenswerthen Beobachtungen unter andern über ein Substitut der Eisengranulirbäder, und den Gebrauch des cubischen Salpeters. Mit drey Kupfertafeln.

Leipzig: bey Siegfried Lebracht Crusius, 1796. First edition. 8vo (6.75 x 4.25 inches), in a modern binding of a scrap leaf from an unknown 17th century edition of Bertius’s Commentariorum rerum germanicum libri tres, [i]-xvi, [1]-296, xvii-xxiv [the Inhalt, misbound in the rear]. Three folding plates. Cheap paper stock somewhat toned throughout; in very good condition. Item #22439

On the surgical and therapeutic correction of leg deformities, including case studies of work done on a colleague’s three-year-old child. Small early ink autograph note at the head of the title page, later small ink ownership stamp below that.

Price: $500.00